Distributing fertslizers



No Modeh C, H. IKMN. RIBUT NG FERTLIZERS.

N0. 563,195. -Patentedune 30, 1896,

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CHRLEF ll. LYON, GF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

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SPEIFIGATION forming' Dart Of Letters Patent NO. 563,195, dated Tune 3G, 1896.

Application Sled Hay E3, i895. Serial No. 549,116, (No modem To @ZZ whom if may concern:

lie it known that l, CHARLES 1l. LYON, of Chicago, illinois, have invented certain` new and nsefnllmprevenents in Distribntingllertilzers, of which the following is a specification.

ll-his invention relates to a means for applying a fertilizer to lawns, dce., and is intended te lle used in connection with a fertilizer `reduced to the form of'a solid and adapted to be gradually dissolved by permitting water to liow over the solid, the water carrying with it in solution the feriilizing material.

in the application of my invention, which is shown in the accompanying drawings, and hereinafter described and claimed, take a fertilizii'ig (compound in the foi-1n of a solid,

, and preferablycylindrical in shape, and inclose it witl A,he waterway of a pipe-couplinger pipelse'ction adapted to be used in connection with a garden-hose; and to this end I construct a container from two pipesections. provided with means whereby they may be detaehasly connected together and provided also with means for connecting them between the coupling members of two sections of garden-hose orbetween one of said sections and the hose-nozzle. Vithin the hollow body of .the container I preferably removabl y secure a cylindrical shell constr notedv in two sections, one for each section of the container, and provide s aid perforated shell with. strengthening and spacing ribs, so that the shell is held centrallyof the ehainberand a waterway is provided around the sides Vof said shell. The end portions of the perforated shell maybe formed separate] y from the body portion.

While the preferred construction is as above described, l do not limit my invention thereto, as the same may be embodied in varioiis forms and the structural details thereof varied at pleasure.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l. is a plan view showing in i/entice. applied between a section of hose and the n zzle, the latter being shown broken away. Fig. 2 1s a similar View, part-ly in longitudinal section, through, the container and hose-couplings. l'lig. is a transverse section showing a modifled construction wherein the spacing and strengthening ribs are provided on the interior walls of the container. Figs. 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 show the several interior parts of the containerA separated, Figs. 4, 5, 7, and 8 being perspective views ofthe perforated shell and its supports, and Fig. 6 a plan View of the fertilizing compound. Y

In the drawings, 10 represents the base portion of a hose-nozzle of ordinary construc-l tion, and 1l its coupling member.

12 represents a section of hose, and 13 its coupling member. Between these parts, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, is placed my container composed of the two sections 14 and 15, each of which basa water-passage, (indicated. at 155 17, respectively,) and is provided with means for connecting it -to the coupling-seetions 11 and 13 or for such other coupling mechanisms as it may be desired to employ. The meeting ends of said sections 14- and 15 may be adapted forv threaded engagement with each other and they provide a large chamber to contain the. fertilizer. rlhe latter is preferably in the form of a solid. and highly concentrated and may be compressed into a solid cake of cylindrical form, as shown at The constituents yof this This body 18 is placed within the container, and in order that it may be held centrally therein I 'prefer to employ a perforated shell to receive it and a frame composed of ribs for spacing and strengthening said shell. These several parts are shown in Figs. i, 5, 7 and S, theL part-s shown in Figs. 5 and 7 being alike and each composed of a cylinder of thin sheet metal. (Marked land 20,respectively.) For convenience of manufacture l prefer to make them by rolling a thin sheet of perforated metal into the form of a cylinder and overlapping and soldering the'edges thereof. Thecnd portions of the cylinder are marked 21 22, respectively, and they are perforated metal disks. Inorder to hold them in place and also to confine the sections 19 and 20, l may employ the bracing-ribs 23 and 24, each being substantially U-sliaped and their prongs projecting parallel and their bodies crossing each other and engaging,the disks; as,for example, by reason of their edges entering notches 25 in said disks. The portions 2-3 are of such length and bear such relation to the sections 19 and .O and the compound 1S 'n eenee that when all are placed in position the cyiend of the cylinder and passing through the perforations of the shell, will gradually dissolvev the feriilizing meteriai and carry it away in solution through the nozzle. -T-

By ineens of this invention a highly-concentreted fertiiizing compound may be epplied in solution evenlr to e grass .plot orto plants and siirubbery. Y

The container when constructed es' eoove described will hold the restraining compound until it hes been almost completely dissolved, and when exhausted a, fresh supply :may loe introduced by uncoupling the sections 1i and 15. When the latter ere separated, the ShelL sections 19 end 2G with their respective *cree ing-ribs and end oeps will part, each remaining in its respective member of the container,

uso that in supplying fresh materiel the mere unserewing of the sections ii end i5 enables e newieyiinder to be piaced and the device pnt in position for use again by rengeging said sections.

Gloviously various in oditiceiions of the structurel features of the invention nitty be made, e'srfexemple, instead of einpioying tine-spacing and strengthening ribs 23, ribs 26, Fig. 3, may be cest or integreily formed on the interior Walls of the sectionsli and 15, and oy 'placing 'seid ribs close together and employing a; perforated cop, such as 2l, et the discharge end of .the container, the perforated sheil-sectionsl? and 2O may be dispensed with, or the ends of the ribs might be joined at the discharge end in the same wey that tile'ribs 23 are joined, so es to prevent the cylinder from being driven into the discharge-orifice l?.

Again, if'parts corresponding to titi-ose shown in Figs. Li, 7, and 8 oe employed, they might be constructed of other materials and of other forms than there shown'. The perforated cylinder might be mede all infonie, and one of the end caps might be omitted, es the force of the Weiter Wili -hold tiieertilizing compound in position. nsteedo connecting the container to the nozzle it might he placed at some other point along the. "line of hose, as, for example, neer the source of supply oriietween two sections of hose, so that the additional weight thereof would not have tobesupported by the person using the hose. v1

Viiie I have described my invention as a fertilizer-distributer, i do not@ nd to re-I Strien` tothis specific use, es conftempigi't 'eniicying the device shown 'for the distribuition. of e disinfectant in solution, and it may be applied to other uses.

i/Vi'tiioun'therefore, iiinitinig my invention to these structurel details, icleiini. A fertilizer dis'tributer comprising in combination a. container composed of two meteilic sections adapted for connection with each other and each hai-*ing a Waterway through its outer end and e ierger chamber in its inner end and a perforated shell located Within the elniniberend supported out of contact with its walls whereby toprovide a waterway around the sides and ends of the shell, substantially as described.

2. A fertilizer-distributor, 'comprising in combination e container eonstructed'of two metallic sections separar connected with ee-ch other end having .tr opposite ends adapted for deteeiieble engegement in u line of hose, e perforated sheii adapted to retain e fertilizing compound centrally oi 'he cham- 1oer and ribs interposed between the walls of the chamber end fthe-c siiell and aiiording a we terwsy between them/and around thegsel,

substantially ais described. l

i ertiiizer-distrionter, comprising in combine-tion e container composed of two metsliic sections aida-pied. three-ded engagement with each other and also for threaded engagement in e line'oi hose, e perforated shell composed of two oylindrie sections and a fre-roe for each oi seid sections composed of strengthening end bracing ribs, substantially 'es described. v A

CERLES H. LYON. vWimesses:

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